[go-nuts] Re: Difference between cmd/compile/internal/syntax/parser.go and pkg/go/parser/parser.go

The interesting thing furthermore is that it seems like the pkg/go/parser/parser.go has been around since Go 1.0 whereas the cmd/compile/internal was introduced in 1.6 when they translated the yacc parser to handwritten Go. https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/16665/ On Saturday, March

[go-nuts] Re: Difference between cmd/compile/internal/syntax/parser.go and pkg/go/parser/parser.go

I won't speak for the maintainers of cmd/compile/internal/syntax, but packages in the standard library have to be backwards compatible with previous releases. This makes it difficult to make changes to its interface (possibly for performance reasons) and major re-architectures of its